i think prince was less defensive because rock is an artist,
and he approached him that way.

rock said: "I was looking at some mike tyson footage. Tyson was looking
at old clips of himself and said, "i can't beat that guy." When you see clips of
your old performances, do you think you can beat that guy?

Do you WANT to beat that guy?"

i mean that's not the most mind blowing question on earth,
but it's closer to something someone would want to ask prince.
I heard the question, and i cared about the answer.

And prince gave the question some thought, and gave a cool answer.

That's a good interview.



To your point about the documentary, i agree.
One of the reasons i like the "classic album" series
is that they ask musicians questions that pertain to music.

I don't know if they get into engineering the way
and engineer would want to hear something unpacked...
but if an engineer started talking about something deep, they'd let him talk at least.